Author: Kasey Butcher

From the first teaser trailer for Carrie, I couldn’t help but wonder why anyone would feel the need to remake

I think 90 minutes is a perfect movie length. Many of my favorite films clock in between 90 and 100

This week, Prisoners, a psychological thriller starting Hugh Jackman, Paul Dano, and Jake Gyllenhaal, takes the torture techniques we’ve seen

In The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois writes about “double consciousness,” as the way that African Americans were

The family road trip disaster comedy is a tried and true framework for a summer movie, from National Lampoon to

It’s a pretty common marketing tactic for horror movies to claim they’re the scariest movie of the year, but rarely

If 2012 was a banner year for Hollywood, so far 2013 has set out to counter that success. Most movies

Every now and then I see a movie that takes a pretty simple story and executes it in such a

Oz the Great and Powerful, the new prequel to the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz, had me imagining what

I have to admit that there was something brilliant about releasing A Good Day to Die Hard on Valentine’s Day.

Side Effects, the new film from director Steven Soderbergh promises a cocktail of romance, thrills, and deception as it puts

I’m not sure if it’s far enough from a contentious election to find a story about a crooked politician in

Before it even hit theaters nationwide, Zero Dark Thirty faced both criticism from political voices such as Senator John McCain

Pretend you’re in charge of setting the schedule for your studio’s film releases. It’s a few weeks before Christmas and

The Life of Pi is one of my favorite books. It pretty much has it all—adventure; struggle; reflection on the

A popular trend in children’s movie is to mix nostalgia or kitche with the aesthetic or the plot so that

When I was a kid, I watched Adventures in Babysitting innumerable times. If I flipped through the channels and it

Call me a nerd, but I get a little over-excited for period pieces. I also have an appreciation for a

It’s rare that I actually anticipate the release of an action movie, but when I saw previews for Looper, in

On a Thursday afternoon, I found myself sitting alone in a small theater heckling. Embarrassingly, it’s not that unusual for

Prohibition Era crime movies are a Hollywood classic, known for Tommy guns, femme fatales, and dirty cops that make the

Whoever decided the release date for The Odd Life of Timothy Green is a marketing genius. The feel-good family film

I’m a big fan of stupid comedies or of having a laugh at the expense of a major flop, but